North Carolina Newspapers

SHELBY, N. C. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 15,1926 Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday Afternoons. By niai1, per ye£r <in advance )„f2.6< _ - _ ___»y carrier, per year (in advance) $3 (H mat’s THE News tHE STAR’S REVIEW - The cold wave predicted for to an(j tomorrow seems to be ar ching and to tide over the spell j^] weather prophets are pre dicts a blanket of snow. • * * There are 44,000 illiterate whit* janen in North Carolina, says a* informing article in today’s paper. Poultry may prove a saving side y,,, to the farmers of Cleveland gydy i nthe opinion of 0. Max Crdner. ^ „ The new register of deeds may jjjjin a marriage record. He start (d six couples off within seven . . . ffill the eight miles difference in routing knock Shelby off the proposed extension of the P. & N ? Old vets and their widows in Cleveland county have a tidy little U, of money for Yuletide holi dtp. Their pension checks arrived it the clerk’s office yesterday. * * * A football game for Shelby as j dristmas day entertainment now i seems likely according to informa- | preaching The Star. The game ; if it comes through will see many: former stars in action. Cleveland county youngsters are | ferited to write letters to Santa j (Hus and send them to The Star j fa publication. • • • Shelby is now headquarters for mdivision of Kiwanis in the. Car- i •bias according to a dispatch from fusion. • • • ! Taro of the best trained legal ] sods in Western Carolina cngag-1 ti in an argument today in re- i (order’s court much to the delight, of court spectators who are miss ing a run of sensational court tises. • * * How many bands and students : jell when college debating teams . get together ? How much differ- j me is there in the status of de leting and football in North Car dins colleges ? Read the editorials ii today’s paper. Shelby Has Two Tax Rates, One For Old, One New Monday’s Star credited the Ral egh News and Observer as saying th*t Shelby has the third lowest licipal tax rate of any town of **ilar size in North Carolina. His is true and not true. Shelby hu two tax rates for a period of three years after the extension of tie corporate limits. When the city Pits were extended the territory was excused from paying part on the outstanding bond « for a period of three years, therefore for three years the new ■ttory has a rate of 88 cents per property valuation, while the ■ territory has a tax rate of $1.25 P WOO valuaton. At the expira ■o of the three year period the prates will be uniform in the old new territory and at that both rates will be changed, statement by the News and perver was based on the rate P* prevails in the new territory P o nthis basis the rate make plby have a very low rate. The rate in the old territory com favorably with towns of like pin North Carolina. ew Water Plant I* Accepted Today I|The city’s new water plant was today when the engineers •Pleted the figures and passed a •to the city clerk, Mrs. Suttle, Payment in full. The amount * the city paid Tucker and general contractors and ' ™auney, grading contractor, ♦142,566.70. This, however, is MU of the expense. There have a number of extras to pay ?Wc these two contractors several expenditures will be later. The reservoir will be yd m, the grounds beautified grass and shrubbery and a erected for the plant , ••ger. fctl* * r!Cent meeting of the city W***: Spencer Elliott was chos Cn^ht man to assist Mr‘ Hu*?'1 ™ tae Plant superintendent. W.alTace Home r°m Raleigh Meet ETorti P \rma ^ a^ace has returned l*n rin,a e'K*1. w^Pre she attended a •Mu1 Hating for home and farm [g 0 ^°rth Carolina. She re »an^ mos*; interesting gather 11,. . °^e ihat will be profitable n "er work in Cleveland as siss v ec?nomics demonstrator. ^' aiiace who was ir. „• 1 c<>unty during the milk t 5n an(l did such effective - nas returned to her duties en months leave of ab i Modern Beauty, and the Beast Bl^kSlwip-en Cr0"'n °f Kankai;e*- rn- >s shown holding the halfer of ~^ TSU'erv,a’ th* *n«<-n«t!ona1 Livestock Expos! 1 ‘ al ' tw W'J <■»»• «n»ry of ths University of Illinois. Another Lutz Child Typhoid$ Victim— Two Others 111 Kinston, Dec. 14.—New divisions of the Kiwanis international organ ization in North Carolina and South Carolina were announced by Felix Harvey, jr., retiring district governor, today. division ao. J, with J. D. Line berger, the lieutenant-governor, in charge will have headquarters at Shelby. Counties in the group in clude Cleveland, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Buncombo, Wilkes, Lin coln and a number of others. Mecklenburg Governor John A. Kellenberger is lieuten ant-governor of the second division. His residence is at Greensboro, and his territory embraces Guilford, Surry, Mecklenburg, Union, Anson, Richmond and other counties. Division No. 3 embraces the territory around Raleigh. Durham, Fayetteville, Dunn and Warrenton. with Frank Jeter, of Raleigh, as lieutenant-governor. Shelby May Have Holiday Football Former gridiron stars of Forest City and Shelby may meet in a game in Shelby on Christmas day provided enough interest in a post season football game is shown here. That’s the word from Harry Grigg, former Shelby star, who has been trying to arrange a post season game. Grigg first had the idea of ar ranging a game between old Shel by stars and the South Carolina upstate champs of Gaffney, but he has received a letter from Coach Carson saying that the state ath letic association has refused to let Gaffney participate in such a con test. Grigg, who is employed at Forest City writes “I hear there is some likelihood of a Shelbv Charlotte game on Christmas. If that game should fail to come through I think I can arrange one between former Forest City stars and a picked eleven provided enough interest is shown." The terms quoted would be 10 percent to the Shelby American Legion to sponsor the game with the remainder to be split -50-50 be tween the two teams. Grigg pro poses to play with Forest City and hopes that Capt. Fred Logan, of N. C. State, or some other Shelby star will line up an eleven here to oppose his team. Grigg s team seems definite and apparently it is now up to the local legion post to arrange an opposing outfit and puV the holiday sport event over, giv ing Shelby her first taste of pro football. Anyone interested in the proposed game is urged to get \n communication witli the former Shelby star at Forest City. Second Child in Family of Four Suffering With Typhoid Fe ver, Dies Later. Within seven hours after the death of Bryte Lutz, eleven years (old child of Mr. Marvin L. Lutz, prominent farmer of the Belwood section. Bovt, a ten year old broth er of the 'deceased, fell victim to the same disease, making two deaths in the family the same day, one of the most tragic incidents since the epidemic of influenza some years ago. Bryte Lutz died Monday morning at 5:30 o’clock a victim of typhoid and pneumonia and at 1:25 the same day, William Boyt, age ten, followed his older sister on her way to the celestial home. Series of Misfortunes. A series of misfortunes have fol lowed in the family of Mr. Lutz. Their dear mother, who before 1 marriage was Miss Mamie Elliott, died September 8th, 1924. She was true to her home and to her chil dren, a most faithful and loving mother whose passing was sad in • deed. Since her death, three of the children have followed her to the grave, the second death in the fam ily being John Dwight just 16 months old when he passed in May, 1925. Two of the other children are now left in bed suffering with ty phoid, supposed to have originated in the family from drinking pol luted well water. Reports from their bedside this morning is that their condition, however, is very en couraging. Pearl’s fever has now apparently'broken. Lois, however,! is just now in the first stages and her* condition is fairly good. The two cold forms of the children lay at the home Monday night and , about 100 friends of the Belwocd, community gathering at the homo! to pay their sympathy to the be reaved father. Double Funeral. The two little children are sur vived by their faithful father, Mr. M. L. Lutz who was born and rear ed in the Belwood section; by their oldest sister, Inez, who has since the death of her mother played the j role of mother in the home; by Robert, their oldest brother; by Everett; and by the two who are yet in bed, Pearl and Lois. The last tribute of respect was paid the double scene of sorrow at the Kadesh church, Tuesday 14th, at 12 o’clock. Their little playmates ; and Sunday school friends tottered along in sacred mourning, as flow er bearers in memorium for their loved companions whom God had called from their midst. Rev. J. W. Fitzgerald, assisted by Rev. J. M. Morgan, conducted the funeral rites a large crowd, including the Be' w'ood school witnessed the scene as the bodies were given back to mother earth. The flowers and de signs were well becoming to the occasion, symbolizing the budding of souls to bloom in a better world. STAR WILL PUBLISH SANTA LETTERS Any toddling1 youngster who de sires to write a letter to “Old Sandy” and tell the Christmas vis itor what he or she wants lor Christmas may now do so and The Star will publish the letter so that j the jolly old fellow, a regular read er of The Star, may hear of the childish desires. Several Santa Claus letters have already come in to The Star office and beginning Friday a department will be given over to these letters following an annual custom of the I paper. Children writing: letters to Santa Claus should mail them to the following address “Santa Claus, care of The Cleveland Star, Shel by.” The letter should be written on one side of the paper only and in as clear manner as possible. Here’s your chance younsiers! Tell the bewhiskered old fellow what you want so he will not bring the wrong gift. No letters will be published after December 22, and all letters should be before that date if possible. ■SINKS com COMES FOR VETS OF THIS CflUNTV 186 (’hecks Arrive For Veterans And Widows of Civil War Soldiers Tottering old veterans of the War Between the States have a little pocket money for Christ mas. The semi-annual pensim checks for 186 veterans and wid ows have arrived at the office of clerk of court A. M. Hamrick ar.d are ready for distribution. One hundred and nine ' of the checks are for widows of veterans who have passed On and 70 checks are for veterans still living. Out of this number it is estimated that several have died since the last pension checks were sent out. Just how many will he able to person ally call for their checks remains to be seen. Tw’o of the 70 checks for men are for two old colored men who served with their white masters during the war. Clerk Hamrick #ays that the checks must be applied for in per son and if the veterans or the widow’s are physically unable to come for their checks they must send someone who will make affi davit that the veteran cannot do so. The checks for the veterans are $100 each and for the widows $50 each, which is a total of $13,150. COLD WAVE HITS DISTRICT TODAY The long predicted cold spell for this section seems to be en route. This section today noticed a con siderable drop in the temperature that continued throughout the day, and as the press association writers announced “King Winter seems to have left his calling card under the door of the South this morning.” Local weather prophets predict ed a snow today or tomorrow, but the steady drizzle of early morn ing has held forth all day. The Bureau Says The officials weather forecast for the South today read: “Heralded by rapidly declining thermometers as far as Florida and snow and rain in some sections, the wintry bite of a cold wffve sweeping down out of the northeast was felt throughout the south to day. From Virginia to Kentucky the forecast generally was for colder weather, with sub-freezing temp eratures expected in several states of the far south. Snow Falling Snow began falling in west Ten nessee early last night, with the mercury hovering around 28 de grees and overcast skies giving promise of more inclement weather. Chattanooga prepared for a drop in temperature to 18 degrees by morning and the state generally expected below freezing weather. Northern Alabama shiwered under the approach of the cold wave late yesterday, with a 20 de gree rading at Huntsville and still colder weather predicted for today. blight moderation of the cold in Kentucky that brought a minimum temperature of 18 degrees to Louisville yesterday was forecast for today to the accompaniment of snow, although a drop To 10 de grees in the early morning hours was expected there. Snow also was predicted for Louisiana and Arkansas, while cloudy skies and probable rain was the outlook for Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. Necktie? No! Sid White, the cowboy lawyer front Oklahoma, hates neckties. But when he came before the supreme court at Washington D C., to try a ease, the doorkeeper made him put one on. White tore It off as soon as he got out of court. Reports Has It That Shelby Route Would Be Eight Miles Long er Than Other Route. The construction cost of eight miles, more or less, of railroad track deprive Shelby of being on the proposed extension of the P. & N. from Gastonia to Spartanburg. That’s the deduction local boosteis of the Shelby route have derived fhom what information they could secure about the extension from Charlotte. However, business men interest ed in bringing the extension this way sr.y that Shelby may get the road despite the extra eight miles. In fact some of them including Secretary Clint Newton, of the Chamber of Commerce. seems to think that Shelby will be on the extension. Mr. Newton in discussing- the matters says that directors of the IP. and N. well realize the rich ter I ritory that would be opened up should the P. and N, come this way and that it is useless to try to tell • them more, but that the decision i to a great extent depends on the I actual survey of the proposed (routes by the road engineers. That is where the eight miles comes in. It has been estimated that the Shelby route would be eight miles farther than the route proposed much along the route of the main line Southern. Whether or not freight revenues by way of Shelby will be large enough to overcome the distance of eight miles devel ops into the question mark. In the meantime, however, no definite information about the pro posed route has been heard from Charlotte. According to Mr. W. S. Lee’s statement “The newspapers are not routing out extension and such will not be done until our engineers complete their surveys.” Baptist Minute Book Published From the preases of the Kings Mountain Herald, the minutes of the Kings Mountain Baptist asso |ciation which was held at Kings I Mountain October 5th and 6th, have | been issued. Clerk G. G. Page of the association was in Shelby yes terday and left a supply with Mr. George Blanton at the First Na tional bank, Mr. Blanton beirg treasurer of the association. Churches may obtain their allot ment from Mr. Blanton by calling at the bank. The pages bear the likeness of Rev. A. C. Irvin and Rev. G. P. Bostick, two saintly ministers who gave their lives to the Cause of Christ. Both Irvin and Bostick were early Baptist ministers, Mr. Irvin laboring in the Master’s vineyard at home and Mr. Bostick serving in the mission fields of China for over a third of a century. The minute bocra? is printed in large type and is compiled with a great deal of care. The next session of the associa tion will be held with the Double Shoals church October 3rd and 4th. COTTON MARKETS (By Jno. F. Clarfc and O ) Cotton was quoted on the New York Exchange at noon today: Jan. 12.09; March 12.33; May 12.5G; July 12.75; October 12.94; Dec. 12.45. Liverpool 12:30 p m Jan. 4, Mch. 2, May 4 aitin points better than due Oct. as due. Southern weather last night cloudy 18 to 25 in north Texas and Okla., un favorable for picking. Memphis special says indifference of spin ners and merchants so far as de mand for actual cotton is concern ed is pretty well matched by indif ference of owners about selling. Heavy ‘Christmas selling’ has not materialized anywhere in the south. This attitude on part of owners is due to a widespread be lief that cotton is as low as it is going and if held may be saleable at higher prices. Moderate busi ness in Worth street, prices little easier. Southern spot markets sold 28.300 bales, Dallas 1110, Augusta 1150. Look for narrow trading market for a while. CLEVENBURG. Christmas Cheer Producer Found Deputy R. B. Fortenberry today brought in to the sheriff’s office here a 50-gallon copper still recent ly captured by him near Rockdale. No liquor was captured with the still it is understood. ! SHELBY’S DEAF EVANGELISTS Andrew (’. Miller, Jr„ (he only ordained deaf evan gelist in (he Presbyterian church of America, and his wife Kachclle, who assists him with silent song in his services. Mr. Miler in the accompanying h nholo is saying “Jesus” with his hands, while hisL'# wife is singing with her hands the words “Nearer! My (iod to t hee. (Story in second section.) y 44,000 White Women In North Carolina Unable To Read Says University Report—Leads Nation ! Forty-four thousand native white [illiterate women, almost 10 per 'cent of the total of 477,128 to be foun din the whole country, live in North Carolina, according to the December 15 issue of the Univers ity News Letter. In no other state in the Union is to be found as many of these women “that God forgot,” according to the 1920 census fig ures through Kentucky, with 42,763 and Tennessee, with 39,250, run n close second and third. From a nu merical standpoint, the record of Nevada, where there are only 53 white women over 21 years of age who can’t read and w'rite, is best. A startling feature of the census report, as featured in the News Lei ter, is that in 1850, 70 years before the 1920 count, there were only 73, 234 illiterate white women. The re.; ductiori, therefore, has been less than 20 per cent, the 1850 figures for North Carolina, with a total of 47,327, show' an even smaller re-! duction. Country Women. “With rare exceptions,” says the article in the News Letter written by Dr. E. C. Branson, which is, in turn, quoted from his recent story in the World’s Work, “they are country women, born and reared in the lonely, lowly homes of the sparsely settled rural regions of the United States. In North Caro lina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama they swarm out of their dreary country homes in large num bers injlo the cotton mills. In New York, Maine and Pennsylvania they are descendants of devitalized stock Everywhere, native white illiteracy of all ages and sexes is a country problem. It long ago disappeared in our towns and cities, or nearly so. Nine tenths of it is rural. Not so in the north and west where for the most part illiteracy is foreign born in city ami country regions alike.” Concerning these women Dr. Branson goes on to say in part: Native-born White Women. “They are not negro women nor women of foreign birth. They are native-born white women twenty one years old and over, who cannot write their names or read a news paper or their Bibles. In round numbers 477 thousand of them. So read the dull figures of illiteracy in the 1920 census. This in America, whose other name is said to be Opportunity! And after three hun dred and ten years of history! “They are the women God for got—thin and wrinkled in youth from ill-prepared food, clad without warmth or grace, living in .untidy houses, working from daylight to bedtime at the dull round of weary duties, the mothers of joyless chil dren, worn out by excessive child bearing, and encrusted in a shell of dull content with their lot in life. They are the fogotten women la mented by Walter Hines Page in an address delivered in his home state twenty-five years ago, and 1 have described them in his phrases.” New Register Gets ’Em Married Off; Six Knots So Far A. F. Newton in Office Seven Days Issues License For Six Marri ages. December Record. A. F. Newton, ‘Tater Andy’ t> hundreds of farmers who voted to make him register of deeds, is pro viding himself a wizard at Dan Cupid’s own little game of getting single blessedness turned into ma trimonial happiness—or a divorce court. At the completion of his sev enth day in office Mr. Newton had issued license for the marriage of six couples. What county officer has ever created more happiness in his first week in office? So far December holds its record of being a good marrying month because it is a holiday month. With only 13 days gone eight couples have received marriage license. Seven of the eight were white couples and one was colored. The white couples were: John Henry Bumgardner and Hulda Smith; John D. Dedmon and Mattie Gray; T. A. Davis and'Mattie Bridges; Andrew C. Jenkins and Sadie White; Audie Ledwell and Lily Earls; Berry MeSwain and Eula Brooks R. T. Wilson and Lillie Blanton. Ella Mill Folks Banquet Saturday A banquet of the superintendents, assistants, overseers, and foremen of the Ella mill, of the Consolidated Textile corporation, will be held at the Central hotel Saturday night according to an announcement by J. R. Wikle, superintendent. A special program of entertainment with the Christmas touch has been prepared. On the same night employes of the Shelby cotton mills will be ban queted at Cleveland Springs, as has , been announced heretofore by The Star. I POULTRY IS WAY OUT PROBLEM OF Chicks, Cows and Hogs Will Re lieve Agricultural Trouble Gardner Thinks. Chicks, cows and hogs to balance the farm see-saw with cotton is the ; solution of Cleveland county’s farm f problem with the biggest crop of , cotton ever to sell at a price below : production cost, according to the* 1 opinion of O. Max Gardner, farm j leader and organizer of the Cleve. < land county farm board. “I’m glad to see that The Star ; is pointing out and detailing to ] readers the successful examples of j poultry farming in Cleveland court- 1 ty,” Mr. Gardner stated. is utc 1 best way out of a bad economical •] mire on the farm in my opinion,’ a he added. “Chickens, and chicken alone car get our farmers back on their feet after a hefty blow by the cotter flop, but add to the chickens hur i deeds of good dairy cows, severa ; score good brood sows and a-littl : more diversification and in a fev years Cleveland county shouldn’ ' have a worry about what nappen; to cotton.” ihe si tick1 published in The St.tr j showing the advantage of diversi- 1 fication as illustrated in the Turn- j er poultry farm near Earl is be;ng '* published over a wide territory in the South by many newspapers that are urging diversification on their tinners. iiraMliiE TECilCm PUT IN WRECK IFFIIB Hoey And Gardner Have Interest* ing Courtroom Tilt Over Kings Mtn. Case Courtroom spectators of the county recorder’s court Were af forded some side entertainment this morning when Attorneys Clyde It. Hoey and O. Max Gardner en gaged in an argumentative tilt concerning a technical admission in the case of State vs. Roy Crow der, including a series of charges against the defendant owing to an automobile wreck on November 8. ; Hoey’s theory apparently car ried with the court and the eas« was continued uWtil next Tues day to enable the defense counsel to secure a so-called important witness. From what evidence was intro# duced it seems that on November 6, a car driven by Roy Crowder, the defendant in the case, an«| another car driven by Miss Inez! Bennett, of Kings Mountain, col lided on the Kings Mountain-Sbel* by highway beyond the Buffalo bridge. Mrs. Charles Oates, Mrs: Joe Bennett and others riding in, the Bennett car were injured, Mis. Oates receiving severe injuries to; the scalp according to the testi-i mony of a physician. In the war rant Crowder was charged will assault with deadly weapon—an automobile—with operating a aujf under the influence of liquor and with receiving, possessing and transporting. rxo wuiiraacs wcic vaiiCU iU in stand and the case proceeded M Gardner, who with Attorney J. Davis, assisted in tku jsocacutk Mr. Gardner started to show ti condition of the defendant at t time of the wreck, whereupon K Hoey objected. In the argume that followed it developed that o of the defense witnesses, who woi swear that the defendant w sober 10 minutes before the wre was not present and Mr. He claimed that the prosecuting coi; sel agreed before the trial to a mit that the defendant was sob. as this witness would testify. Tht prosecution, however, declared tha it did admit the defendant was sober in Kings Mountain, but hnc not agreed to admit that he was sober at the time of the wreck and saw no reason why could not be shown he was undci the influence of liquor at the tirnj of the wreck even if sober at prior period. The defense contend ed then that they (lad a right have the witness in court and bat agreed to try the case only with such admissions or with that wit ness. The argument continued ovei several minutes prior to the rul ing of Judge Mull that,the defensj might have the case continued unti the necessary witness could secured. Considering the auspicious open ing of the case it is likely that tb hearing set for Tuesday wit draw an even more interest ' lery of spectators.